Malawi Government has been challenged to explore ways to increase public spending on health to achieve targets of maternal and child health services which are below the recommended threshold. Speaking during a breakfast interaction with members of the Blantyre Press Club in Blantyre yesterday, Health and Rights Education Programme (HREP) Malawi executive director Maziko Matemba
A hospital in India where the Malawi Government refers cancer patients has admitted that it is aware of concerns raised by its international patients regarding news of bogus drugs for cancer treatment. Government, through Ministry of Health spokesperson Adrian Chikumbe on Wednesday expressed fear over social media reports that the hospital was administering spurious cancer
First COVID-19, then a prolonged cholera outbreak – overlapping crises have stretched Malawi’s health workers to breaking point, as routine immunisation suffered. Recovery is now top of the agenda.
Looking frustrated and depressed, Caroline Madeya, from Ndirande Township in Blantyre, walks lazily out of Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital (QECH) gates. She was referred to the central hospital on Thursday after an illness, but she was sent back to buy a painkiller diclofenac from a pharmacy. “How can I walk from Ndirande to here only